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Great point about airflow and disease. The threat is real. Most of my vines have fences or walls behind them so airflow isn't great...

I have a small backyard vineyard of 50 vinifera (riesling/sangiovese/nebbiolo) . The climate here in SW Washington is ideal for powdery...

I extended the vineyard with 6 new plants from my grafting experiment. This will be the extent of the front vineyard, making 20 vines...

The vines will fill in the gap along the rows. The row spacing will be function of equipment and geometry. With only 30 vines I suspect...

I have not shown off my front yard planting yet. I am growing Zinfandel trained in the gobelet style. This is year 2 for the vines...

Not much yet but off to a good start. Seven Syrah and three Grenache Noir just outside of Tucson, AZ.

Spent half the day doing minor pruning. Cleaning out dead wood and trimming back some of the branches I had left long. I am the...

I’ll chime in, since I usually just watch these posts from a distance…lol. Here in southwest burbs of Chicago, we had a warmer than...

My 32.5 degree temp this morning (ice on my metal roof and cars) made me think of this thread and wonder why I wasn't at all concerned...

Tempranillo budbreak on 4-14-2024. Malbecs should open today, Tannat's still look a 3-7 days out and Baco's opened last Friday.

2022 crop. red cap: Cab; blue cap: Carmenere; black cap: Merlot\Syrah blend.

I'm pretty excited about this year. I'm getting better at pruning, grapes are nearing the maximum extent of where I want them, and I...

Don't tell my grapes, they don't know it's too cold here ; ) Typically we are freeze free from mid April to mid October and have about...

I'm in Salt Lake City at about 4600ft. I chose Malbec since it seems to do well in Argentina and my climate is pretty similar to...

After about 2" of snow and upper 20s F last night, buds look ok! Still green, soft, and leafing. My apple trees weren't so lucky, buds...